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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

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Wartime Department of Defense administrators were used to writing blank checks for research and development, and now they were writing a lot of those checks to peacetime contractors like Stanford. That meant the government paid for new and expensive building-size research machines, including particle accelerators, nuclear reactors, and computers.

— Malcolm Harris

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